Table 1 Spearman correlation coefficients of PDFF-D and PDFF-H with the blood serum parameters.

From: Application of multi-echo Dixon and MRS in quantifying hepatic fat content and staging liver fibrosis

Protocol

PDFF-D

PDFF-H

FIB-4

TCHO

TG

HDL

LDL

 

PDFF-D

–

0.551*

− 0.185

0.314*

0.367*

− 0.003

0.265*

r

 

< 0.001

0.128

0.009

0.002

0.983

0.028

P

PDFF-H

0.551*

–

− 0.261

0.410*

0.389*

− 0.050

0.313*

r

< 0.001

 

0.030

< 0.001

0.001

0.685

0.009

P

  1. PDFF-D proton density fat fraction of multi-echo Dixon, PDFF-H proton density fat fraction of breath-hold single-voxel high-speed T2-corrected multi-echo 1H MRS, FIB-4 Fibrosis-4 score, TCHO serum total cholesterol, TG serum triglyceride, HDL high density lipoprotein, LDL low density lipoprotein.
  2. *P value < 0.05.
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